The rain is supposed to die down ad bit and the winds really pick up
around 11 or 12 tonight, so that will likely be when the power fails.
-Matt
On Nov 3, 2007 6:38 PM, Bigadmin <bigadmin at unixplanet.biz> wrote:
> is there any time has been set that we might lose power
> or we should just wait and see how strong the storm will be.
>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
> From: nslug-bounces at nslug.ns.ca [mailto:nslug-bounces at nslug.ns.ca] On Behalf
> Of D G Teed
> Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 6:29 PM
> To: Nova Scotia Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [nSLUG] When the power might be out for days
>> On 11/3/07, Ian Campbell <ian at slu.ms> wrote:
> > It sounds to me like the answer was in your question.
>> Well, what I'd do and what we do are two different things :-)
> That is why I sometimes seek opinions and experience here to verify
> I am not an Ardvark in my evaluations of where we should act.
>> I was curious if any sites without generators just power
> down their servers when they see a storm like this one
> coming.
>> > A generator is almost certainly infeasible for small businesses (not
> > to mention the maintenance required, checking to make sure it actually
> > fails over, and then hoping that it fails over when it has to...), but
> > a decent UPS is not.
> >
> > Presumably if you have "key business systems" you can afford a better
> > UPS. Even most relatively cheap UPSes can be polled.
>> We have a new UPS, but I think ours came from the Dollarama.
> They are just starting to evaluate the client software now,
> but the information on how to configure the sort of parameters
> I've seen for APC client software is nil.
>> My best approximation of what we could do, is to run an APC
> brand device somehere, just to be able to have something to poll
> from many platforms with apcupsd. But I'd need to convince
> the superior, who distrusts open source, that this would be
> trustable software.
>> In any case, it is too late for tonight to implement a solution, so
> I've given them enough rope to hang themselves (I've already
> tried reason, but they seem to act as if I'm going outside of
> my role to think like a manager) and I'll just see what happens.
>> --Donald
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